{"id":488,"date":"2011-04-04T12:05:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthculturekilledmydog.com\/yckmdwp\/?p=488"},"modified":"2011-04-09T00:32:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T05:32:42","slug":"alternate-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youthculturekilledmydog.com\/yckmdwp\/2011\/04\/alternate-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternate Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been waiting so long<\/em>
\nTo be where I’m going<\/em>
\nIn the sunshine of your love<\/em><\/p>\n

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Dimension Zero promo, circa 1998. From left to right: Jason Huls, Paul Brooks, Jon Thompson, Al Holman.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This is a story about a band with big dreams. A band who plotted the release of a 75 hour blu-ray in 1996 and sought to completely dominate the planet. This is a story about Dimension Zero. Not the Swedish death metal group. Nope. My old high school rock band.<\/p>\n

I agree with Brian Warner when he said that everyone should try to be in a rock band. I got a lot out of it. Did I mention I was voted most likely to be in a rock band at graduation! Destiny, right? As a side note, the bassist, Paul Brooks won best hair in high school.\u00a0 Our group had a Tool-ish prog rock thing going on. It started in 1995 and lasted around 4 years. Total, I think we played 10 or 12 shows and released a 6 song demo tape (TAPE lol?!). We did 99% original work and we were very determined. In fact, the only cover we ever played out was Sunshine of Your Love. Ok, I think we did some version of Free Falling at our first show. We ran out of songs to play so we noodled with that.<\/p>\n

Here’s the most popular song we had, Invasion, from our release The Millennium Core (rawr!)<\/p>\n

Invasion<\/a><\/p>\n

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PB & J jamming at band practice. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At an early point in our history Paul Brooks developed a timeline for our careers. A prophecy. According to this timeline, by now we should have released 5 major albums, a trilogy of films, replaced a band member and gone on a handful of world tours. Clearly all of that has happened. For many years we believed the timeline was lost but we recently received word that a mad arab uncovered a version in an ancient, Syrian cave in the Appalachian Mountains. Here it is…<\/p>\n

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CLICK TO MAKE BIGGEN!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The reason all of this did not come to pass may very well be because we lost this timeline. We may never know for sure.<\/p>\n

One of the most interesting things I learned from looking at this was the actual birth date of the band. I had no idea. Similarly, I had no idea we played our first show on April 14 of 1996. Somewhere there’s a tape of this.<\/p>\n

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Dimension Zero celebrating their first year of existence. From left to right: Jason, Paul, former vocalist Chad Kneller and Al.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Coming up is my 15 year high school reunion. There’s no way in hell I would want the lifestyle of a touring musician nowadays. Filmmaking is way more my speed. I’m still trying to take over the world and I think part of my idealism and drive began in music and oozed through to who I am today. So the end goal is similar but, like our hairlines, the band faded.<\/p>\n

Actually, the vocalist, Jon Thompson, is still in a good band. The Abacinators.<\/p>\n

cRick heEr 4 Mewsick!<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s see. At this point, the next thing on the master plan is the release of our 6th full length album on June 20, 2011. It has always been a goal of mine to release a full length album but as it stands today I haven’t released even one. In the grand scheme of my life, it’s a goal that, right now, can be set on the back burner. I haven’t taken my guitar out of the case in probably almost a year. Paul doesn’t even have a bass guitar anymore. They’re actually in my closet. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to buy them from him rather than let him sell them to whomever. That feels cold. Our drummer, Al Holman, doesn’t have a drum set anymore. I don’t think he has in years. I haven’t even seen him in years. Last I heard he sold his kit and bought an acoustic guitar. Contrary to the timeline, Al hasn’t died (at least not that I’m aware of). Some people are hard to track down and Al is one of them. He has no digital footprint that I’ve ever been able to find. No facebook, no myspace, nothing. So while Al most likely is living in Bloomington-Normal, we cannot be sure. I like to think that somewhere, right now, he’s doing what he loved most: smoking.<\/p>\n

In short, taking over the world has taken a little longer than expected.<\/p>\n

I still intend to turn gold on May 24, 2018. I’ll look like a cross between Oscar and Dr. Manhattan.<\/p>\n

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X World- The band's epic 75 hour-long concept album. It was to be recorded with new technology Paul had learned about called "Blue Ray".<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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